insurance marketplace
October 23, 2017
Louisiana gives away more money through corporate tax exemptions and credits than it collects from corporations in income taxes. That much has been known for years.
Number of the Day
79,379 - Louisianans who buy health coverage on the individual marketplace and benefit from federal cost-sharing reductions (Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)October 17, 2017
Before President Donald Trump and congressional leaders can approve a massive tax cut plan that mainly benefits the wealthy, they first have to push a budget resolution through the Senate. But right now, the vote tally for a resolution that would unlock the fast track process known as reconciliation is not certain.
Number of the Day
325 million - Number of Shetland ponies that could be bought - enough to provide one to each American - for the cost of repealing the federal inheritance tax. (Source: Center for American Progress)October 10, 2017
New Orleans’s hospitality workers are the engine of the city’s tourism-based economy. Unfortunately, many of those workers don’t earn enough to maintain a decent standard of living, and 500 employees of the Hilton Riverside recently decided to do something about it.
Number of the Day
197 - Number of community health centers in Louisiana whose federal funding expired on Sept. 30 and has yet to be authorized by Congress. (Source: National Association of Community Health Centers)August 2, 2017
With the failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care, efforts are now underway in Congress to stabilize the individual health insurance marketplaces.